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NYC Food Truck Lunch: Sip & Slide Combo From The Lobster Joint

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A new food truck appeared about a month ago called The Lobster Joint. There are already 3 lobster-centric food trucks in New York, but is there room for another?

The Lobster Joint took the reverse route of most food trucks, with a Greenpoint restaurant opening first, then a stand on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk, then a food truck. Guess there is enough room in NYC for The Lobster Joint.

In order to try a couple of things, we ordered the Sip & Slide Combo for $12. It included a lobster slider plus your choice of lobster corn chowder or New England clam chowder. Other items on the menu include a lobster roll, lobster club roll, and a lobster salad.

Opening lunch, the lobster slider was small, but contained a full lobster claw. Along with the lobster meat was celery, red cabbage, red onions and a little mayo. If lobster sliders are your thing, you can get 3 sliders for $12 or 12 sliders for $44. (While we're at it, why not 100 lobster sliders for $250?)

Lobster chowder is a new concept to us. It was thick but broth-based, and more similar to Manhattan clam chowder than lobster bisque. The broth had a sweetness to it, but not in the sugar sense. More like sweet sherry was used in the broth.

Lobster Chowder From The Lobster Joint
(credit: Perry R.)

The chowder was full with corn, celery, two large pieces of lobster claw, some lobster knuckle meat, and various herbs and spices.

The Lobster Joint is not the cheapest lunch around, but they delivered on taste, and it was more filling than expected. We were ready to be starving by dinner with only soup and a slider for lunch, but somehow the afternoon passed, and we made it to dinner without any major hunger incidents. That chowder was more filling than it looked.

You can find The Lobster Joint on Twitter here, their website is here (with brick-and-mortar locations), and Facebook is here.

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